Empowerment

Notes on above figures: • Figures for 2007-2009 refer to the Community Development Programme and the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme (combined). • These programmes were amalgamated into the Local Community Development Programme (which operated between 2010 and April 2015). • This programme evolved into the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) that has operated since 2015.

SIPTU has welcomed €45 million extra in Budget 2025 to raise pay for workers in the early years education and childcare sector.

New research released by Pobal today has found that people living in areas of deprivation are  significantly more likely to report poor health or disability. 

Funding for pilot wellness hub ends, but mental health work must continue

So why are equality and human rights so important now? Past progress has benefited many of us but there are still many groups who are denied equity. Since the foundation of the State every decade in Ireland has seen various groups discriminated against, excluded and in some cases dehumanised.

Professor Siobhan Mullally is the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children and she also supervised Andrew Forde when he was studying for his PhD. She spoke at the launch of his book.

Author with background in European conflict resolution publishes first book

The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) has launched a new Online Youth Mental Health Signposting Tool, which is designed to provide young people, parents and youth workers easy access to mental health resources and services locally.